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af·fright  audio  (-frt) KEY 

TRANSITIVE VERB:
af·fright·ed, af·fright·ing, af·frights
To arouse fear in; terrify: "Many of nature's greatest oddities, that would affright dwellers up here, are accepted down there" (David Mazel).
NOUN:
  1. Great fear; terror.
  2. A cause of terror.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English afrighten, from Old English fyrhtan : -, intensive pref. + fyrhtan, to frighten (from fyrhto, fright)

OTHER FORMS:
af·frightment(Noun)


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